Word: existed
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...Rees R. Barnett to the Harvard Law School forum Feb. 4. In the early part of his speech, Barnett dealt with the attractions of his state and recent signs of its economic progress, concluding that "all areas of this nation are aware of the peace, harmony, and opportunities, that exist in Mississippi...
...least half the buildings on which we now depend - including, for example, the majority of the Undergraduate Houses, the whole of the Business School, virtually all of the laboratories for science north of the Yard - did not exist in 1924. Mr. Lowell began to appeal for new quarters for the Department of Chemistry as early as 1916, but in 1924 this department was still endeavoring to make do in the ancient Boylston Hall. The biologists were sandwiched at that time into the University Museum which today cannot even provide adequately for its own basic activities...
Humanities may prove a lot tougher to help than science. The key idea in "new" math and physics is "discovery": rather than memorizing Newton's laws of motion, for example, students are led through experiments to conclude that the laws exist. But history is a can of worms: its "truths" tend to be value judgments, not physical facts. However much a superb teacher leads a student to true investigation, not timid indoctrination, the final conclusion is partly subjective...
...quietest of despairs, expresses his predicament with irony: "It is a pleasure to carry out the duties of a citizen and to receive in return a receipt on a neat styrene card with one's name on it certifying, so to speak, one's right to exist. What satisfaction I take in appearing the first day to get my auto tag and brake sticker! I subscribe to Consumer Reports and as a consequence I own a first-class television set, an all-but-silent air conditioner and a very long-lasting deodorant. My armpits never stink...
...other hand, the psychologist noted that the "gang" manifestation of delinquency is easy to spot of New York City's East Side, but doesn't exist in a suburban area like Newton. And where gangs are found in Boston, they differ from those of New York in a number of ways...